reading editbox contents from a different program

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• pingpong

  August 2004

  Well, you cant easily read another process memory and they cannot read yours. When you call GetWindowText, you send that process a pointer to your local memory, they get it as null.
  
  I havent tried this but might work, but why not send the control WM_COPY then read the text off the clipboard?
  
  : I need to read the contents of an editbox (or possibly a richedit box) from another program, and I'm not at all sure how to do this. GetWindowText() works when called on editboxes from my own program, but it just returns an empty string when I've tried it on editboxes from other programs. Does anyone know how I could do this?
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• ifaqs

  August 2004

  You could get the desktop window:
  
  HWND dtop = GetDesktopWindow();
  
  and then work with all or everyone of its child windows:
  
  EnumChildWindows(dtop, &EnumChildProc, 0);
  
  , being EnumChildProc() something like that:
  
  BOOL CALLBACK EnumChildProc(HWND hWnd, LPARAM lParam) {
  //Send the message to every window. You could specify only
  //some childwindows by asking for its (Get)ClassName.
  SendMessage(hWnd, EM_GetOrSetWhatYouWant, 0, 0);
  return TRUE;
  }
  
  Hope useful.